35 things I love about you!

Happy 35th Birthday.

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1. You make me laugh.

2. You make yourself laugh.

3. You make your kids laugh.

4. You think positive about everything.

5. You will take the girls on dates and show them daily what they will want in a husband.

6. I love your work ethic. It is off the charts.

7. You always say yes when I come up with a crazy new project for you. 

8. I love your passion for showing kids that hard work always trumps talent.

9. I love that you are secretly in love with Jinxie, our cat.

10. I love that you encourage me when I lose perspective. 

11. I love the way that you accept hurt and disappointment with such dignity and faith. 

12. You have taught me what grace truly is. 

13. You are not ok with superficial relationships.

14. When you pick out the girls outfits.

15. I love when I come home and see you and Kyndall cuddled up watching Little House on the Prairie.

16. I love that you are so protective of what the girls are exposed to.

17. I love that you hold me accountable of what I am exposed to. 

18. I love that you still drive the first car you bought 13 years ago and truly think that it is still awesome.

19. When you make the bed every day, with the bedspread side ways and too short on each side =)

20. When you make me laugh when I am mad.

21. When you say "sorry I will try better." as a way of telling me to be quiet =)

22. Love your humility.

23. I love when you pray with the girls at night before bed.

24. I love when you take the girls to Toys R Us to buy them a surprise and have to come up with a reason that you are doing it so they won't think they didn't earn it. Knowing the real reason is because you just love seeing them get excited over little things.

25. I love that you know grocery shopping for me is one quick way to my heart.

26. I love how much patience you have.

27. I love that you line my shoes up in the closet so I can find the matching pairs the next day.

28. I love that you get so excited when you do something nice for someone.

29. I love that I know that I can't wake up Sunday morning and tell you I am too tired for church. 

30. I love that you are always concerned that I am getting enough rest.

31. I love that you are a passionate man with strong convictions.

32. I love that you are my human diary.

33. I love that you encourage me to be the best version of me.

34. I love that you don't care what anyone thinks.

35. I love that you are my biggest cheerleader.

finally!

Life sure is crazy. I took a break from writing on my blog, and it's been so long now, I don't even remember the initial reason. I am so forgetful  that my family teases I have early onset dementia. HAHA. I know saying "I forgot" is the lamest phrase ever, but I promise that I am not lying. I am having an ADD moment and analyzing my sentence "I forgot" and just checked to see what the subject noun and verb was. I am doing Shurley English with Kylie and we are classifying sentences right now. =) So fun. I have realized that I love to learn, not just about things relating to my profession, but just about everything. I hope when all is said and done, my kids will have the same love for learning as I do. I do not sit still enough to watch movies or read novels, but if it's something that I can learn, then I will do it.  Everyday we make the kids read out loud to us the books they are reading just so we can make sure they aren't over their head and they actually know the words and what not… and today Kylie said, "hey mommy I think I will do my reading when Daddy gets home today." I said, "why is that???" and she said, "well, he told me that if I read to him and he falls asleep, that is a bonus and I will get 2 stars on my chart instead of 1!!!" I could not stop laughing.

I had my sisters kiddos today and we had a fun, but crazy day! Addie is 18 months and she calls me mommy. I love it.  She also says "STOP WYATT" really well!!!!! She is feisty as ever and you can tell she's had a big brother to drive her bonkers so far in life.

Wyatt decided to take a plunge into the creek in our backyard this morning. So he came up with Kylie crying to me and saying "Aunt Chelley, I am so cold!!! Am I in trouble????" He said he "fell" in which cracks me up. Such a boy thing to do. Unfortunately, Wyatt didn't have boy clothes at the house, so he was stuck wearing Katie's clothes and Kyndall's boots. He was so sweet about it, but when we got in the car to go home he took off everything but his shorts and said he could not WAIT to change. I ran around like a nut for a lot of the day tending to everyone's needs and I think I was grouchy for some of it, but now that I sit here in bed I realize that I am really thankful that we have days like this together.  I would like to think that these are the kinds they will remember!